is maintenance different between semaglutide and the others or is that all anecdote
#maintenance 2026-05-21
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- fibre_first — for the archive am i the only one finding maintenance harder than losing was 18:57
- wrong_network — coming back to this SELECT is the stopping one. weight came back on for most people once the drug stopped. that is the finding, not an opinion 18:59
- VialBot — Recon calculator: 15mg in 2.5ml = 2mg/ml. 19:39
- mg_per_ml — is this forever or is that just how it feels at month 4 holidays at maintenance are fine, i take the dose on the day and stop thinking about it 20:14
i weigh weekly at maintenance rather than daily and my range is about two kilos either side
[edited]does anyone lift specifically to hold onto muscle now that theyre maintaining
anyone gone off entirely and stayed off successfully
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harder than losing
lift twice a week
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same as a bp tablet
come down slower than that
i stayed at treatment dose for four months past goal and then came down slowly. that order was right for me
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coming down too fast was my mistake. top rung to the bottom rung inside a month and it was a bad month
no data on that
for the archive am i the only one finding maintenance harder than losing was
m0 118.4
m1 113.9
m2 110.2
m3 108.8
m4 108.1 <- the stall
m5 105.0
m6 101.6
m7 99.2coming back to this SELECT is the stopping one. weight came back on for most people once the drug stopped. that is the finding, not an opinion
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still at maintenance
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quick one update from 3 months ago: still at maintenance, still boring, which was always the goal
[edited]appetite returning is not the drug failing, it is the drug doing less because you are taking less of it
a 10mg vial at a 2mg maintenance dose is five weeks of doses, so my monthly cost roughly halved
im holding at 7.5 for maintenance and wondering whether i should be lower
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my range is 10 and i stopped calling anything inside that a regain
food noise coming back at a lower dose settled again after about four weeks for me
while im here holidays at maintenance are fine, i take the dose on the day and stop thinking about it, thats one data point
STEP 1 is the one where they stopped and it came back isnt it, has anyone read the actual numbers
i dropped from 2 to 15 for maintenance and held steady for fourteen months
[edited]Recon calculator: 15mg in 2.5ml = 2mg/ml.
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weekly not daily
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does anyone budget for maintenance being cheaper or is it the same $94 a month
i think about it the way i think about my blood pressure tablet, and that framing helped me more than anything else
how much protein were people eating at maintenance compared to while losing
resistance training two or three times a week is what the room converged on and it is not glamorous
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appetite came back over about three weeks after i reduced, not all at once, which is what i had braced for
is there any trial data at all on a lower frequency schedule
is this forever or is that just how it feels at month 4
holidays at maintenance are fine, i take the dose on the day and stop thinking about it
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the honest answer to is this forever is that nobody knows and the drug only works while you are taking it
i tried to come down and could not hold it, went back to treatment dose, and stopped apologising for it
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dropping to a maintenance dose was uneventful for me and completely miserable for somebody i talk to weekly
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maintenance is harder than losing because there is no number going down to keep you interested
how do you decide youre actually at maintenance rather than just stalled
cost did not drop at maintenance for me because i went to a lower dose from the same vial and just used it slower
lower frequency maintenance is genuinely unstudied. anybody telling you it is proven is making that up
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there is no official maintenance dose. it is a thing we do because the alternative on the table was stopping
unrelated but i was wrong about maintenance being the easy part and i had said so loudly for a year beforehand
the maintenance conversation barely existed in here two years ago and now it is half the channel
the muscle question is the one i wish i had taken seriously at month two instead of month twelve
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nobody here can tell you whether to stop. we can tell you what happened to us when we did
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went back up, no regrets
i came off for four months, put 62 back on, and came back. no drama in it, just numbers
how do people handle a two week holiday at a maintenance dose
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everybody i have seen stop and hold it did something else as well, without exception in my time here, happy to be corrected
there is no trial on every ten days or every fortnight. people here do it and report on it and that is all we have
thats SURMOUNT-1
anyone tried every ten days or every fortnight as a maintenance schedule
no official dose
m0 118.4
m1 113.9
m2 110.2
m3 108.8
m4 108.1 <- the stall
m5 105.0
m6 101.6
m7 99.2